Computational approaches to discourse understanding have a two-part goal: (1) identifying those aspects of discourse understanding that require process-based accounts, and (2) characterizing the processes and data structures they involve. To date, in the area of reference, process-based accounts have been developed for reference via anaphoric pronouns and via definite descriptors. In this paper...

In recent proposals for the crucial internal structure of the framing Contextual Component within Functional Discourse Grammar (Hengeveld & Mackenzie 2006, 2008) — for example by Rijkhoff (2008:88-97) and Connolly (2007) —, what is here called text is considered as equivalent to discourse within an account of the NP (Rijkhoff) or of context (Connolly). The article purports to show that this con...

Connected discourse has a number of substantial impacts on tone. First, the ideal form of tone is routinely compromised due to articulatory sluggishness. Second, the underlying tonal target itself is sometimes changed. Third, the surface tonal form is further distorted by other linguistic functions that also change pitch either deliberately or inadvertently. This article discusses how the surfa...

In Kibrik’s sample-based study of referential choice presented at DAARC 2000, a quantitative approach was proposed to calculate an activation score of a specific referent at a particular point of discourse from a range of partly interdependent factors, such as distance to the antecedent, referent animacy, etc. The activation score then determines the referential choice. The advantage of that mu...

The article deals with the specific features of English theological discourse and various interpretations this term. first part emphasizes lexical peculiarities texts semantic-structural texts. In second authors draw a distinction between terms “modality discourse” “mode discourse”, sharing viewpoint T.V. Shmelyova in favour term discourse”. definition concept "mode discourse" classification mo...

feminist critical discourse analysis is an approach distinguished by its focus on revealing unequal power relations between women and men in their social life. in the present paper, it is suggested that simone de beauvoir’s theory of the formation of gender identity and female subject in the second sex provides a meaningful theoretical ground to the feminist critical discourse analysis. althoug...

Recent studies on the analysis of intonational function examine a r a n ~ of materials from cue phrases in monologue (Litman and Hirschberg, 1990) and dialogue (Hirschberg and Litman, 1987; Hockey, 1991) to longer utterances in both monologue and dialogue (McLemore, 1991). Results match specific intonational tunes to certain discourse functions which are more or less well defined. Although thes...